From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Datatype sizes
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Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 15:52:52 GMT
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On Tue, 09 May 2000 13:29:58 GMT, dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer)
wrote:

>pad2369 wrote:
>
>>I thought gcc aligned to 32 bit words auto variables 
>>for efficiency reasons, like with struct members, thus 
>>allocating 8 bytes in the above example. 
>
>Single bytes can be accessed efficiently in any position,
>because wherever you put them they never cross a boundary.

Anyone know why `short' variables are said to be so much slower than
`int'/`long' variables, even if they don't cross boundaries?

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